Position Quotes
- Page 6Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
Gabrielle Union
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.
Stephen Cambone
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron Paul
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
Anatoly Chubais
I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
Michelle Branch
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
Guy Kawasaki
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
Rodrigo Rato
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek
And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.
Nguyen Cao Ky
I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
Arlen Specter
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
Bill Gates
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
Paul Ryan
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
Alan Dershowitz
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
Ben Hogan
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
Danica McKellar
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Edward Burnett Tylor
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Edmund Husserl
The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
Darrell Issa